EDAC/thunderx: Fix possible out-of-bounds string access
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 83% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
EDAC/thunderx: Fix possible out-of-bounds string access
Enabling -Wstringop-overflow globally exposes a warning for a common bug
in the usage of strncat():
drivers/edac/thunderx_edac.c: In function 'thunderx_ocx_com_threaded_isr':
drivers/edac/thunderx_edac.c:1136:17: error: 'strncat' specified bound 1024 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]
1136 | strncat(msg, other, OCX_MESSAGE_SIZE);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
...
1145 | strncat(msg, other, OCX_MESSAGE_SIZE);
...
1150 | strncat(msg, other, OCX_MESSAGE_SIZE);
...
Apparently the author of this driver expected strncat() to behave the
way that strlcat() does, which uses the size of the destination buffer
as its third argument rather than the length of the source buffer. The
result is that there is no check on the size of the allocated buffer.
Change it to strlcat().
[ bp: Trim compiler output, fixup commit message. ]
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/426fae93c01dffa379225eb2bd4d3cdc42c6eec5https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/475c58e1a471e9b873e3e39958c64a2d278275c8https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5da3b6e7196f0b4f3728e4e25eb20233a9ddfaf6https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6aa7865ba7ff7f0ede0035180fb3b9400ceb405ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/700cf4bead80fac994dcc43ae1ca5d86d8959b21https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71c17ee02538802ceafc830f0736aa35b564e601https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9dbac9fdae6e3b411fc4c3fca3bf48f70609c398https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1c86511241588efffaa49556196f09a498d5057https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00016.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html